Office of Men's Health

Senator Mike Crapo and Representative Vito Fossella are expected to introduce bills which would establish an Office of Men's Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This office would mirror the work of the existing Office of Women's Health, which has helped to save thousands of women's lives and has improved the lives of many more.

I have been opposed to an Office of Men's Health. I have also opposed to an Office of Women's Health.

The problem for men during the past few decades has been government laws, rules, and regulations that interfere in the voluntary relationships between individuals and groups, which spilled over into meddling in the voluntary relationships between men and women. You know whose side came out ahead when the government interfered in the gender wars, wars that have been going on for centuries! Do you now think the government will be fair just because it collects our money and grows in power and decides the spending on men's health?

Despite the loss of individual freedoms and choices from government power, we somehow always ask for more government. Men now are asking for more government to control their health decisions. When the government starts plundering and managing lives, all people want to participate in the plunder and management of lives.

As for health research, I remember President Nixon declaring a war on cancer. Billions of dollars have been spent on research for a cancer cure, but none is in sight. The NIH has a budget of 27 billion dollars per year, and they have not found a cure for one disease!
http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/historical/chronology_of_events.htm The NIH does have a section on men's health. http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/435/25

The last known disease that was cured in the United States was polio. It was not cured, but, a vaccination was found in 1952. The funding provided to Dr. Jonas Salk, who created the vaccine, was government funds.

When you allow government to forcibly take your money and spend it as they see fit, on research, you get more research, but no cure. There are profits in research, treatment, and benefits for government employees. There is no profit in a cure. This is what will happen with research on men's health. You also give the government more power, power to spend YOUR money as the government employees choose.